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Fewer episodes of major crime in New York City in 2015 have made the year the safest in modern history, but William J. Bratton, the police commissioner, has also called it “a year of great contradictions,” as two officers died on duty.
Both local entertainment companies, as well as Netflix, Amazon and 21st Century Fox, hope to persuade Indians to pay for online streaming, but changing current habits will be difficult.
Many Republican governors support expanding coverage through the Affordable Care Act, a law that members of Congress from their party want to see fail.
Mrs. Clinton’s work, as a young law student in 1972, to determine whether an Alabama school discriminated against blacks was a moment of awakening for her.
A debate over race and policing has swept through many cities this year, but its arrival in Chicago has pointed an especially strong spotlight on City Hall.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 23, 2015, covering December 27, 2015.
Adele
Coldplay
Justin Bieber
Pentatonix
G-Eazy
2015Stein Eriksen, Norwegian-American skier (born 1927)[†]
Stein Eriksen was an alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Norway. Following his racing career, he was a ski school director and ambassador at various resorts in the United States.
2015Dave Henderson, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1958)[†]
David Lee Henderson, nicknamed "Hendu", was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox, San Francisco Giants, Oakland Athletics, and Kansas City Royals during his 14-year career, primarily as an outfielder.
2015Ellsworth Kelly, American painter and sculptor (born 1923)[†]
Ellsworth Kelly was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, color and form, similar to the work of John McLaughlin and Kenneth Noland. Kelly often employed bright colors. He lived and worked in Spencertown, New York.
2015Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player and minister (born 1932)[†]
Meadowlark Lemon was an American basketball player, actor, and Christian minister. For 22 years, he was known as the "Clown Prince" of the touring Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. He was a 2003 inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Ordained in 1986, in 1994 he started Meadowlark Lemon Ministries in Scottsdale, Arizona.
2015Alfredo Pacheco, Salvadoran footballer (born 1982)[†]
Alfredo Alberto Pacheco was a Salvadoran footballer who had the record for most appearances on the El Salvador national football team when he was banned for life in 2013, for match-fixing while playing for the national team. He was murdered on December 27, 2015.
2015Stevie Wright, English-Australian singer-songwriter (born 1947)[†]
Stephen Carlton Wright was an Australian singer, songwriter, and musician. Called Australia's first international pop star, he is best known for being the lead singer of the Easybeats, who are widely regarded as the greatest Australian pop band of the 1960s.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]